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Be it known that I, SAMUEL WEBB,'ot the town of Joliet, in Will county,and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement on aWater-Wheel; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, and the letters ofreference marked thereon, making a part of this specication.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the -wheel enclosed within thescroll.

Figure 2, a View ofthe Wheel.

Figure 3, a diagram, showing the position of the wheel in the scroll;and

Figure 4 a sectional view of a single bucket ot'l the wheel to show itsexact shape.

As the water is let in at the'gate a. fig. 1, it engages with thebuclets, passing between them, and discharges from .the centre of. theYwheel beneath, on account of the position of the wheel, as shown infig. 3. In most wheels great diliculty is experienced in running in deadwater. To obviate this diiiculty use an air pipe, b,

shown in iig. 1, which lets in p. current of air, causing the ivheel torun with great steadiness. c represents a lid or door, immediately overthe wheel, togive facilities for making repairs, dto., Without takingthe scroll apart, as is ordinarily done. 4The wheel' is constructed withtwo plane parallel wooden disks, grooved to receive lthe ends of thebuckets, which are of metal, and held together .by means of rods, atintervals, passingfjust' behind the buckets, as shown'in g. 2L The wheelis narrower than the scroll so as to allow a body of water to restthereon to hold it steady, and to utilizevsaid body of water I use thefloats Aor buckets 0l d `attached to the; upper side of the wheel, shownin fig. 2, which greatly enhances the power. The floats or buckets d arein4 shape similar to the longitudinal section of a cone set to presentthe concave s of about forty-live degrees, with a line from theperiphery to the centre.

have made, aside froml theintroduction and use of -the air-tube?) andoats or buckets dd d, is the peculiar shape of the buckets, "as shown iniig. 4.

I am aware of-,the use of semicircular buckets, fig. 4, from e tof, andstraight fromf to g; butI use 'a bucket of the peculiar shape as shown,combining the segments of two circles, placing 'the shorter one at theperiphery of the wheel.

C'Zatz'm.` Y What I claim as new'in my invention, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The combination of the air-tube 6, the floats or buckets d d al, the lidc, and buckets t L,

of the peculiar shape described, all constructedanl arrangedas and forthe purposes set forth.

SAMUEL WEBB.

Witnesses:

Taos. H. HUTcHINs, F. B. CocHnAnn.

urface to the water at .an angle The peculiar improvement I claim to andalso those using the segment of a circle, as shown in i

